Movies: Your top-10 favourite FOREIGN classics (pre-80s)

[Nalens Oga]

Favourite foreign classic films (and by that I don't mean which one you think is the best made, I actually mean favourite before everyone decides to fill it up with Tarkovsky)? Pre-80s as a cut-off for classics.

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[Jumptheshark]

Man about the House
Are you being served
On the Buses
Benny Hill

 

[nameless1]

Man about the House
Are you being served
On the Buses
Benny Hill

These are all T.V. shows. The OP wants movies.

 

[nameless1]

You might not want Tarkovsky, but I am pretty the lists will be dominated by Bergman, Kurosawa, Ozu, and Fellini.

They probably will fill up my list, if there is not a 1 film per director limit.

 

[jimmythescot]

Seven Samurai
M
Metropolis
Drunken Master
Snake in the Eagle's Shadow

 

[Jumptheshark]

These are all T.V. shows. The OP wants movies.

LOL gotchya

There were movies based upon all of them

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Are_You_Being_Served?_(film)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_the_Buses_(film)

Man about the house was based upon a 67 movie and Benny Hill had movie released here as well

 

[nameless1]

LOL gotchya

There were movies based upon all of them

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Are_You_Being_Served?_(film)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_the_Buses_(film)

Man about the house was based upon a 67 movie and Benny Hill had movie released here as well

Ahh, I did not know that. Nicely done.


Did you enjoy the movies more than the series though?

 

[Winger98]

In no particular order:

Solaris
My Life As A Dog
Blue
Fanny and Alexander
Summer Hours
400 Blows
Howl's Moving Castle
Amarcord
YiYi
The City of Lost Children

 

[nameless1]

In no particular order:

Solaris
My Life As A Dog
Blue
Fanny and Alexander
Summer Hours
400 Blows
Howl's Moving Castle
Amarcord
YiYi
The City of Lost Children

Pre-80s. Other than 400 Blows and Solaris, all of them are post-80s.

 

[Eisen]

Every list has to include Elling and Le fabuleux destin d'Amélie Poulain.

Dang:skipped the previous 80s part.

 

[nameless1]

Every list has to include Elling and Le fabuleux destin d'Amélie Poulain.

Dang:skipped the previous 80s part.

I have not seen Elling, but honestly, Amelie is nowhere in my top 100.

 

[nameless1]

Wild Strawberries (Bergman)
Seven Samurai (Kurosawa)
Tokyo Story (Ozu)
La Dolce Vita (Fellini)
The Human Condition Trilogy (Kobayashi)
Jules et Jim (Truffaut)
Rififi (Dassin)
Pickpocket (Bresson)
The Bicycle Thief (De Sica)
Ikiru (Kurosawa)

 

[MetalheadPenguinsFan]

Black Sabbath (Mario Bava)
Black Sunday (Mario Bava)
Tales From The Crypt
Vault of Horror
Zombi 2. (Fulci)

 

[hototogisu]

1. Stalker (Andrei Tarkovsky, 1979)
2. Aguirre, the Wrath of God (Werner Herzog, 1972)
3. Black Orpheus (Marcel Camus, 1959)
4. Seven Samurai (Akira Kurosawa, 1954)
5. Solaris (Andrei Tarkovsky, 1972)
6. El Topo (Alejandro Jodorowsky, 1971)
7. Last Year at Marienbad (Alain Resnais, 1961)
8. The Exterminating Angel (Luis Bunuel, 1962)
9. La Strada (Federico Fellini, 1954)
10. Week End (Jean-Luc Godard, 1967)

Probably missed a bunch/would change depending on the day.

 

[kihei]

1. Children of Paradise (Carne) France, 1945
2. Pather Panchali (Ray) India, 1956
3. Jules and Jim (Truffaut) France, 1962
4. Last Year at Marienbad (Resnais) France, 1961
5. Charulata (Ray) India, 1964
6. Alice in the Cities (Wenders) Germany, 1974
7. Blow Up (Antonioni) Italy/UK, 1966
8. The Mirror (Tarkovsky), Russia, 1975
9. Tokyo Story (Ozu) Japan, 1953
10. 8 ½ (Fellini) Italy, 1963

Breathless (Godard) would be my first alternate.